Autographic register



(No Model.) a 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. W. M. KINNARD.

, AUTOGRAPHIG REGISTER. Patented-Apr. 14, 1896.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

W. M. KINNARD. AUTOGBAPHIG REGISTER.

No. 558.080. Patented Apr. 14, I896.

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ILL M. KINNARD, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE CARTER-ORUME COMPANY, OF NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 558,080, dated April 14, 1896. Application filed June 10,1892. Serial No. 436,228. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLWI. KINNARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usef ul Improvements in Autographic Registers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for registering autographic writings on several sheets, one or more of which are to be used by the writer, while duplicates are automatically filed away and preserved,

and it relates particularly to an autographic register inwhich the record-strip which is to be filed away and concealed in the case is not cut ofi, but is automatically folded up in bellows folds within the receiving-compartment of the case; and it has for its object to greatly simplify and cheapen the mechanism to accomplish this result, the novelty of which will be hereinafter more particularly set forth and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure '1 is a central longitudinal section of the machine. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof with the top casing removed.

The apparatus is inclosed in the usual box A, of any suitable shape, provided with a removable slanting top B, which is cut away to allow for the writing on the writing-tablet O.

The end D of the receiving-compartmentE is hinged at the bottom at a, while a look I) is provided at the top in order that the receiving-compartment can be opened, though ordinarily kept locked against unwarranted use. The partition F separates the supply from the receiving compartment. J ournaled in suitable bearings in the sides of the case within the supply-compartment are the dispensing-rolls of paper G G G. Any number of rolls, of course, may be employed; butl prefer to use three, as shown. The strips of paper from these three rolls are passed around the guiderod 0 and over the writing-tablet O and between the feed-rollers H and I, which are journaled in suitable hearings in the upper part of the case.

Between the sheets of paper where they pass over the Writing-tablet carbon-paper or other manifolding material is placed in the usual way, so that the. writing on the topmost sheet will be transferred to the other sheets. The two feed-rollers H and I are preferably providedwith gear-wheels d e, which mesh with each other, While one of the feed-rollers is provided with a hand-crank by which same may be revolved and its motion communicated to the other to feed the paper from the rolls. One of the feed-rollers may, however, when desired, be operated by frictional contact with the other instead of by gearing. A slot or opening f is provided in the casing, through which the two uppermost strips of paper are fed without the case, while a cutting edge is provided against which these two strips may be drawn to sever them from the rolls. I prefer to bevel ofi the edge of the top B to serve as this cutting edge, as shown at g, although an independent knife-blade can be used, if desired.

The lower or record strip of paper h, which it is desired to deliver and file away within the receiving-compartment E, is passed between the rollers K L, which are journaled in suitable bearings at the upper portion of the receiving-compartment of the machine. Each of these cylindrical rollers is provided with a pair of male and female dies at opposite points of the periphery of the cylinder, which dies extend lengthwise of the cylinders from side to side.

Z is the male die on the cylinder L, which forms a ridge or projection from the face of the cylinder carried up almostto a knife-edge, while on the opposite side the triangularshaped groove on forms the receiving or female die. The roll or cylinder K is provided with an exactly similar set of dies n 0, the two cylinders being placed in such relation to each other that as the cylinders are revolved the male diet will fit within the female die 0 and the same for the dies m and n. These two rollers or cylinders K and L are provided with the meshing gear-wheels p '1', while the pinion 3, journaled on the stub-shaftat the side of the case meshes with the gear-wheel d of the feed-roller H and with the gear-wheel r on the cylinder L. Thus the rotation of the feed-rolls will communicate their motion to the cylinders K and L. The circumference of these two cylinders K L is twice the length of one of the folded record-sheets, and as the dies on these cylinders alternate with each other it will be manifest that as the paper is passed between them the dies will form deep creases or folds in the sheet first on one side of the sheet and then on the other, and con sequently as the paper is delivered into the supply compartment it will automatically fold itself into bellows folds, as shown in the drawings.

Havingfthus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In an autographic register the combination with a plurality of rolls of paper, writing-tablet with manifolding material and feeding mechanism to propel the strips of paper over 3 said tablet, of a storage-compartment and two cylinders located above and at one side of said compartment and rotating in contact with each other and between which the paper strip to be stored, is passed, said cylinders each carrying a male and female die on opposite sides of the cylinder, with intermediate gearing connecting said feeding mechanism and creasing-cylinders, whereby upon the operation of the feeding mechanism, the recordstrip will be creased so that it will automatically fold itself into bellows folds within the storage-compartment, substantially as shown and described.

\VILL M. KINNARD.

\Vitnesses:

ALFRED ALLEN, GEORGE HEI-DMAN. 

